Friday Funday: Marvel Comics.
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yah. As you should know Fridays is random blog day were we talk
anything and everything and pretty much run with it. Today's blog is
on the Comic Brand Marvel Comics.
Marvel comics started
out in 1939 as Timely Comics releasing the beginnings of The Human
Torch and Captain America, by 1951 had become known as Atlas Comics
where a lot of the children and teen humour titles were published.
Marvel officially became Marvel in 1961 and following rival company
DC's revival of super hero's followed suit with the fantastic four
(Nov' 1961). This was in a sense a revolution because the Fantastic
Four broke convention with the usual archetypes of squabbling,
holding both deep and petty grudges and taking hold of celebrity
status rather than anonymity. It was during the sixties and the
height of the cold war that had the creators at Marvel revise the
superhero conventions of previous eras mainly to better reflect the
psychology of the age. Comic book tropes like secret identities and
costumes were eschewed and the real world approach such as having
characters bicker and complain represented a change which proved very
much successful.
In 1968 Company
founder Goodwin revised the distribution which ended up allowing him
to release as may titles and warranted demand. Later that year he
sold Marvel Comics and its parental company Magazine Management to
Perfect Film and Chemical Corporation with Goodwin remaining as
publisher, Goodwin ended his distribution deal in 1969 with
independent by signing with the Curtis Circulation Company. During
the seventies a lot of changes happened including changes in
president several times (Goodwin to Chip Goodwin to Stan Lee with Jim
Shooter coming in in1978), popular creator taking work with DC,
companies changing names and due to the decline of The News-stand
distribution network Marvels distribution was affected.
1975 Marvel ventured
into audio with a radio series narrated by Stan Lee (The series was
fantastic four) and hosted its own Comic Book convection MarvelCon
with a promised return in 1976. in October 1976 a superhero called
Captain Britain was created specifically for the UK, during this time
a Number of Syndicated comic strips were launched (Specifically; The
Amazing Spider-man, Howard the Duck, Conan the Barbarian and the
Incredible Hulk) however none of the strips lasted past 1982 bar
The Amazing Spider-man which is still in production. When Jim Shooter
became editor-in-chief in 1978, He cured several of the procedural
ills such as the repeatedly missed deadlines despite being a
controversial personality. Thanks to Shooter being in charge, Chris
Clairmont and John Byrne's run on the Uncanny X-men and Frank
Miller's run on Daredevil became critical and commercial successes.
In 1986 during the 25th anniversary cerebrations the
ultimately unsuccessful New Universe line was launched and Star
Comics a children-orientated line (which differed majorly from the
regular marvel titles) was also briefly successful during this
period.
During the early
1990's Marvel earned a great deal of money thanks to the comic book
boom
of the time, launching
the successful 2099 line of comics set in the future and the daringly
creative but unsuccessful Razor line. From 1990 Marvel had also
started selling Marvel universe cards with trading card maker Skybox
International. The company did suffer a blow in 1992 when several of
its prised artists left to create Image comics in a deal with Malibu
comics owner Scott Mitchell Rosenberg....however Malibu comics was
sold to Marvel by November 3rd 1994.
During the late 1990's
Toy Biz bought Marvel entertainment group to end the bankruptcy and
formed a new corporation, Marvel Enterprises. Toy Biz Co-owner Isaac
Perlmutter helped stabilise the comics line with the help of business
partner Avi Arad, Publisher Bill Jemas and editor-in-chief Bob
Harras. With the new millennium Marvel Comics emerged from bankruptcy
and began to diversify its offerings again. With the creation of its
own ratings system (with X-force #119-October 2001 being the first to
not have the code) Marvel started creating and releasing new imprint
such as MAX (an explicit content line) and Marvel Adventures (Aimed
at children). Several characters became successful franchises in this
time with the Men In Black series (1997-), Blade Movie series (1998-)
X-men series (2000-2006) and Spiderman (2002-) which ended up being
the highest grossing series of the time.
In 2008 Marvel studios
released Iron man the first Movie in the first phase of the MCU
timeline via Paramount Pictures, The Incredible hulk (2008)
distributed via Universal Pictures, Iron man 2 (2010), Captain
America the First Avenger (2011) and the Avengers (2012) completed
Phase One (These movies were also distributed via Paramount
Pictures).
Phase Two started with
Iron Man 3(2013) and included Thor the dark world (2013), Captain
America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014),
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) and ended with Ant-Man (2015).
Phase three included
Captain America: Civil war (2016), Doctor Strange (2016), Guardians
of the Galaxy Vol 2 (2017), Spider-man: Homecoming (2017), Thor:
Ragnarök (2017), Black Panther (2018), Avengers: Infinity War
(2018), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), Captain Marvel (2019), Avengers:
Endgame (2019) and finished with Spider-man far from home (2019).
these three phases are collectively known as “The Infinity Saga”.
Phase four starts
after august 2019 with Black widow (release 2020) and the Eternals
(also release 2020) already being filmed with Shang-Chi and the
legend of the ten rings (2021), Doctor Strange in the multiverse of
Madness (2021) and Thor: Love and Thunder (2021) in pre-production.
Five announced TV series for the direct to consumer Disney+ streaming
service make up the rest of Phase four.
My favourite
characters from the Marvel Universe are Hank “Beast” McCoy from
The Uncanny X-men, Captain Marvel from the Captain Marvel
Comics/Film.....I appreciate the Carol Denver's run to be honest,
Iron man from both the Ironman and Avengers Comics/movies and Nick
Fury from the Avengers Comics/movies.....you have to admit having
both Kelsey Grammer and Nicholas Holt as Hank “Beast” McCoy, Brie
Larson as Carol Denvers/Vers/Captain Marvel, Samuel L. Jackson as
Director Fury and Robert Downey Junior as Tony Stark/Ironman are
totally the right choices. The movies I like are Captain Marvel,
Thor, and the Avengers, and I'm looking forwards to the new Black
Widow movie, whilst Black Widow/Natasha Romonoff isn't on my list of
favourite characters I appreciate her for who she is and what she
went through to become a hero.
I've dipped in and out of reading comics since i was a teenager and whilst not an avid collector, i can appreciate having/owning several copies of your favourite characters comic to hand makes you feel good.
Websites for Marvel
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